Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Qatar and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing The Electric Prunes to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Slave tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marc Almond record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rosa Yemen,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Evens,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Quantec,
The Misunderstood,
The Wake,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rakim,
Boz Scaggs,
Fad Gadget,
The Angels of Light,
DJ Style,
Juan Atkins,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Names,
The Remains,
Joey Negro,
Ornette Coleman,
The Birthday Party,
Livin' Joy,
Cal Tjader,
X-101,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
ABC,
Harmonia,
The Index,
The Motions,
Gregory Isaacs,
Freddie Wadling,
8 Eyed Spy,
Theoretical Girls,
New Order,
Goldenarms,
Wire,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Black Dice,
The Durutti Column,
The Velvet Underground,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
AZ,
Brothers Johnson,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
B.T. Express,
Alice Coltrane,
Blake Baxter,
Pierre Henry,
Desert Stars,
Don Cherry,
Toni Rubio,
Ultimate Spinach,
Reagan Youth,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
kango's stein massive,
Country Teasers,
Cybotron,
Soft Machine,
Eurythmics,
Morten Harket,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.